One
of the main Buddhist principles, that of cultivating ‘loving kindness’,
Metta Bhavana, towards all beings, is epitomized by the empathetic
zodiac sign Cancer, symbolic of familial sustenance and support. Both,
Sun and Moon are now in watery Cancer with a new Moon on Sunday/Monday
7-8th July, at 8:13BST, creating a triple whammy cosmic reminder (as
Moon rules Cancer) to look after all beings, as a mother would her child.
Sensitivity is magnified and emotions heightened as Sun and Moon form
one of two 'Grand Water Trines' currently blessing our heavens. By
connecting to shamanic Chiron in magical and compassionate Pisces and
the destiny-fulfilling North Node in perceptive Scorpio, the lights –
Sun and Moon - spotlight the need to practice loving kindness, with a
focus upon our own hearts and plant the seed of love, with the healing
and well-being of others as our motivation.
Three other
planets, Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune triangulate earlier degrees of
water signs, adding to an intuitive pyramid power that inspires
generosity, imagination, and karmic responsibility. This phenomenal and
long lasting emphasis on the water element accents universal
interconnectedness (which may even be reflected environmentally in the
weather, either in a need/or lack of water or overflow). Also, feelings
we cannot put into words and/or overwhelming emotions can, with a
little training, raise intuition, psychic insight, and a direct hotline
to Divine bliss. Even in the face of recent events around the beloved
Bodhi Tree in BodhGaya, developing a warm heart and gently tuning into a
peaceful rhythm of life, helps one to be extend loving kindness beyond
self, family, tribe or nation, to embrace all beings, no matter the
culture, race, gender or background.
“May you be filled with loving kindness.
May you be safe from inner and outer dangers.
May you be well in body and mind.
May you be at ease and happy.” _/\_
With love & new Cancer Moon blessings
__/♥\__
His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama, currently finishing his 32nd
KALACHAKRA (time-wheel) for WORLD PEACE. _(♥)_ This time the beautifully
complex Kalachakra mandala, depticting the cosmos in relation to mind
& body, is built in Bodhgaya (the place where Buddha achieved
enlightenment) to culminate over this full Cancerian Moon on the 8/9th January.
From the astrological point of view this is an insightful Moon, at home
in 18 degrees of Cancer, indicating an emotional family affair balancing
karmic conditions. Dealing with the past over this full moon can build
stronger foundations for both, career and home; with boundaries
defined one is freer one to move ahead.
While reflecting the
winter light of the consolidating Capricorn Sun, our evocative Cancer
Moon makes her most helpful aspect to dynamic Mars, in purifying Virgo
(who is slowing down to go retrograde on the 24th, just as the elegant
& energetic, inscrutable Water Dragon makes HER entrance with a new
Aquarian Moon on the 23rd (water element is feminine:))! NOW is the time
to take care of heart-mind and body and detox after Yule’s excess.
♥ ~> am still on a meditation retreat and will be back online with the Dragon!
